{"title":"Pitch Variation for Chinese Syllables of Different Information Load (Based on Commercial and Social Radio Ads)","authors":"S. Androsova, V. Karavaeva, Zianwen Zhang","doi":"10.53656/for22.512pitc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.512pitc","url":null,"abstract":"F0 is an important cue present in all vocalic segments, a parameter to differentiate between voiced and voiceless consonants, a relative phonological feature of syllable in tonal languages and a crucial feature of intonation. This paper aims to investigate pitch variation patterns in Mandarin Chinese depending on the syllable information load (Factor 1) in one type of discourse – advertising with the subdivision into social and commercial ads (Factor 2) considering gender differences (Factor 3). 1249 syllable tokens were selected for acoustic measurements, each syllable occurring twice – in the informative and uninformative utterance parts. The information load was determined perceptually: the syllable was considered informative when agreed by the minimum of 60% of listeners, other syllables were considered uninformative. Depending on lexical tone (T1 – T4 and T0), the measurements included average pitch values, declination/inclination starting and ending points (mean values). These parameters were used to judge about relevant pitch features – average height and declination/inclination slope. As a result, a consistent parameter increase in commercial ads vs. social ads and on informative syllables vs. uninformative ones was observed for all tones except T0 that showed the opposite trend in expressing information-based partition. Another finding was tone substitution that marked both informative and uninformative parts but was more frequent in the latter. Substitute tone frequency ranks did not depend on any of the three factors except for T0. High predictability of pitch variation patterns make them applicable in teaching Chinese as L2 in terms of speaking and listening for general and specific purposes.","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81802251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Classical Work on Bulgarian Dialectology","authors":"V. Milanov","doi":"10.53656/for22.571novk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.571novk","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82212279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antonymy in English and Bulgarian Maritime Terminology","authors":"Galina Velikova","doi":"10.53656/for22.501anto","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.501anto","url":null,"abstract":"This paper dwells on maritime terminology and the relationships defining “oppositeness of meaning” in it. It briefly retraces some theoretical assumptions in the sphere of antonymy and offers a classification of antonyms from a morphological and semantic point of view. The examples given are excerpted from documented materials standardized and consistent within the area of shipping and discussed and systematized using the lexico-semantic method. The findings in this study can be applicable when teaching English maritime terminology.","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86132975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dictionaries for English Language Teaching in the Bulgarian Revival","authors":"Milena Yordanova","doi":"10.53656/for22.555rech","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.555rech","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents an analytical review of the available bilingual dictionaries (Bulgarian-English and English-Bulgarian) that were used during the Bulgarian Revival for English language teaching. A quantitative analysis of the dictionaries is made, with special attention paid to the selection of the vocabulary included in them. The specific features of the appendices placed at the end of the dictionaries are discussed. The characteristics of the dictionaries are examined from a linguistic and philological perspective.","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79743127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilingual Approach in Foreign Language Teaching Applied in Present Engineering Education","authors":"Tsvetelina Vukadinova, S. Terzieva, J. Javorova","doi":"10.53656/for22.211pril","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.211pril","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the results of a study in the discipline “Technical Mechanics”. This study was conducted among 1st and 2nd year students from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM), vocational field 5.10 “Chemical Technology”. This paper is the continuation of a previous experiment conducted by the authors, and concerning the study of thesaurus and development of language competences among students from engineering specialties. The present study was conducted during the past academic year at the UCTM. A multilingual educational tool was developed and applied in order to support and improve the learning process in specialized foreign language classes. The motive is to ascertain the effectiveness of the experimental educational tool for the students.","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89261547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“André Malraux – Writer and Struggling Intellectual” – a Celebration of the Spirit","authors":"Sonya Aleksandrova-Koleva, Maya Timenova-Koen","doi":"10.53656/for22.441andr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.441andr","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84572955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pitch Contours of the Russian Polar Question by Bulgarian Speakers of Russian","authors":"Tatiana Aleksieva","doi":"10.53656/for22.408tona","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.408tona","url":null,"abstract":"The prosody of the Russian language is the most difficult aspect even for Bulgarian university graduates in Russian language studies. The aim of this paper is to determine the pitch contours Bulgarian students use when asking yes-no questions in Russian. The materials include samples of mini dialogues in Russian and Bulgarian. Six Bulgarian native speakers were recorded reading the dialogues. The pitch accents and intonation patterns in the recording of each Bulgarian student were compared with dialogue readings by native speakers. The sound files were analyzed acoustically and labelled manually in Praat using ToRI. The results allow to predict possible deviations from the norms of the prosodic system in a non-native language.","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87329107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreign Language Teaching – Purpose of Engineering Education and Instruments in Educational Environment","authors":"Tsvetelina Vukadinova, S. Terzieva, J. Javorova","doi":"10.53656/for22.422cujd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.422cujd","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a study concerning the development and testing of innovative educational approaches for developing language competences of engineering students. The study was carried out among 1st and 2nd year students of the specialty „Technical Mechanics“ at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) – Sofia, Bulgaria. An original bilingual educational tool was developed for this purpose. It was designed to support and improve the learning process in specialized foreign language classes.","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75719396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Sociolinguistic Research of Public Inscriptions in the Urban Landscsape within the Context of Multilingualism and Linguodidactology","authors":"Vesela Belcheva, Svilen B. Stanchev","doi":"10.53656/for22.451edno","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.451edno","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74271125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State Predicates and Phase Derivation: Bulgarian-Russian Parallels","authors":"M. Dzhonova, S. Leseva, E. Ivanova","doi":"10.53656/for22.401pred","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/for22.401pred","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a contrastive analysis of the possibilities of forming inchoative verbs from state predicates in Bulgarian and Russian. The derivational patterns under consideration are much more productive in Bulgarian, but the aspectual properties of predicates impose significant constraints on their combinability with inchoative prefixes in both languages. The possibility of forming an inchoative verb can serve as a reliable diagnostic of a predicate’s membership to a particular ontological category within the semantic typology of predicates.","PeriodicalId":41031,"journal":{"name":"Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74533257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}